The Reason EL34's were selected for the TORII JR is because they seem to be the best sounding and have the most power with the custom UFO ultra-linear transformers.  TORII's have always been an EL34 based design until the MK4 where I felt the better linearity and lower gain of the KT66 was a better fit.  In the TORII JR I liked them all, but since the bass is equally tight with all the output tubes I tried, the CCE aka Hazen Grid Mod became more apparent than ever so EL34 is the stock tube in this amp.

[color=#ffffff]The amp uses a fixed bias set to the ideal mills (40) for this particular amp using EL34's.  There will be a single screw adjustment for bias making it possible to re-bias the amplifier for tubes like the KT66 or 6L6 or KT77.

The advantage of making it a fixed bias design is the ability to get the tube dialed in much tighter and without the heat related drift of a potentiometer.  A  more purist approach.

I'm over half done with the owner's manual as I write this.